Fence



{No Model.)

I EHANSBARGER.

' FENCE.

No. 554,683. Patented Peb..18 1896.

M PHOTO-HMO. wAsmNGTON. DC

UNrT ED STATES ATENT Fries,

HARVEY IIANSBARGER, OF PITSBURG, OHIO.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,683, dated February 18, 1896.

Application filed March 13, 1896. Serial No. 541,616. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARVEY HANSBARG-ER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pitsburg, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Fence,- of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in fences.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of wire fences, and to provide simple, inexpensive and efficient means for securing pickets to horizontal fencewires, and to enable such pickets to be quickly fastened at the desired points or intervals along a fence, and to be maintained in a vertical position without liability of their becoming accidentally shifted.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a wire fence having pickets secured to the fence-wires in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective view showing one of the wire ties.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a series of horizontal fence- Wires having secured to them at regular intervals vertical pickets 2, which are attached to the fence-wires by means of wire ties 3, and the ties embrace the fence wires and the pickets and securely fasten the latter to the former.

The pickets are each provided adjacent to each fence-wire at a point slightly above the same with a transverse perforation 4, and each tie 3 is constructed of a single piece of wire, which is passed through the perforation 4. The front portion 5 of the wire of the tie is extended downward across the adjacent fence-wire at an inclination, and is passed under the same around the edge of the picket, and then this branch of the wire is extended upward diagonally across the back of the picket to the opposite edge of the same at the top of the fence-wire.

The rear portion 6 of the wire of the tie is bent horizontally, and extends from-the perforation 4 around one edge of the picket, and is extended downward diagonally across the front face of the picket and the fence-wire crossing the front branch 5 of the wire, and terminating under the fence-wire at the opposite edge of the picket. The terminals of the two branches 5 and 6 are then simultaneously coiled around the fence-wire and form a continuous eye 7.

The Wire tie is quickly applied in position, and firmly embraces and binds the picket to the fence-wire, and only one twisting or coiling of the terminals of the tie is necessary for applying them to the fence-wires.

It will be seen that the wire tie and the arrangement of the same with relation to the fence-wire and the picket produce a firm connection, and that the tie may be quickly formed, and that only one operation of coiling or twisting is necessary for attaching the terminals of the wire of the tie to a fence wire.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

What I claim is- A fence comprising horizontal fence-wires, pickets arranged vertically on the fence and provided adjacent to each fence-wire at a point above the same with a perforation, and the wire ties constructed of a single piece of wire passed through the perforation of the picket at a point above the fence-wire to form a hanger for suspending the picket, and having its front portion or branch 5 extended downward at an inclination across the fencewire and passing under the same and bent around the adjacent edge of the picket and extended upward diagonally across the back of the picket at the opposite edge of the same .at the top of the fence-wire, said wire having its rear branch or portion bent horizontally and extended around one edge of the picket and then diagonally across the front face of the same and the fence-Wire to the opposite my own I have hereto affixed. my signature in edge of the picket, the terminals of both the presence of two Witnesses.

branches bein simultaneously twisted r A T 3 around the fen ce vire at one edge of the IIARVE1 HAL SLAhGER' 5 picket and forming a continuous eye, sub- IVitnesses:

sta-ntially as described. D. W. THOMAS,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as B. F. RICHARDSON. 

